By Bill Peters AIS Network Director of Sales SSL certificates create secure (HTTPS) connectivity between your Web server and your visitors’ browsers. If you are transmitting sensitive information via a Web site, such as Social Security numbers, credit card numbers or other personal information, you should secure it with SSL encryption to safeguard against others … Read more
By Laurie Head AIS Network Vice President We are often asked, “How do I make the case to upper management that outsourced hosting of our mission-critical data and apps is the way to go?” First, because many businesses rely upon their Web site as their primary public face and their IT infrastructure as their office … Read more
By Laurie Head AIS Network Vice President Do you remember what you were doing in 1993? We do. AISN started its hosting business back in 1993. Remember the way IT management used to work back then—in the 20th Century? The vast majority of small- to mid-sized businesses ran their mission-critical servers in-house, often ad-hoc. Frequently, … Read more
By Ali Giancarlo AIS Network Associate, Marketing and Sales Google “pharma innovation,” and you’ll find that the results reveal a blaring need for a reform in current business strategies — with words like ‘anemic’ and ‘hit a wall’ on just the first page of results. It’s not just posts by political activists and concerned pharma … Read more
By Laurie Head AIS Network Vice President Choose a provider based on its ability to provide a cost-effective architecture and high-quality customer experience for your envisioned use case. —Gartner, Inc., “Magic Quadrant for Web Hosting and Hosted Cloud System Infrastructure Services” So, you’ve decided to outsource your hosting. How do you choose a provider? It’s … Read more
By Desaray Granzow AIS Network, Director of Sales Cloud computing (or shared computing resources) is becoming more and more attractive to the CIOs of health care organizations. Why? Health care providers need to keep track of digital copies of paperwork for each patient — such as the patient’s history, digital copies of diagnostic tests and … Read more
Cloud hosting providers must be in compliance with all applicable privacy laws when it comes to keeping data secure during the collection, storage and use of your sensitive information.
By Jay Atkinson AIS Network CEO You want to spend more of your IT dollar on the innovation that your customers expect. So in order for you to focus on your business, the ratio of what you build out “new” versus what you spend time maintaining and running has to improve measurably. Plus, you want … Read more
We, the citizens of the Internet, have a problem. Not unlike in 1947 when we were running out of phone numbers and added area codes to expand the raw number of phone numbers available, we have actually run out of IP (Internet Protocol) addresses . We have already exhausted 4.3 billion IP addresses from the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) pool that are part of the first major deployment of IP addresses, Internet Protocol Version 4, IPv4.
By Terry Engelstad MCP, MCSE, CCNA, MCDBA, MCTS, MCITP AIS Network Operations Manager It’s very tempting to move Microsoft SQL Server instances to a virtualized environment, especially now that virtualization has become more sophisticated. Theoretically, reducing the number of physical machines that you have while saving money by cutting your power, maintenance and licensing costs, … Read more